As we often do, we enjoyed several special times of fellowship with Greater Grace Church. This time around I had time with Pastor Walsh, and hear his heart regarding Thailand and pastoring. They helped us with some tracts, and we helped provide Multiplication Ministries' Chinese discipleship material for someone who is a new believer in their immediate influence, who speaks Chinese as a primary language. 
We met up with the Director of the Home Church movement Pastor Sinchai, and shared a consultation and Multiplication Ministries tools with one of his assistant directors Pastor Twatchai. The home church movement has been growing throughout Thailand, as it is all around the world. Church administration and discipleship and accountability are all concerns for every church, but especially for the home church movement at this point of exponential growth. Personally, we are believers in home cells within the context of a church body, however millions around the world do not have the privilege of belonging to a traditional church, but enjoy the privilege of knowing God through a closer knit group who unfortunately are persecuted and in hiding from the public. MM works with several evangelical church organizations, some with differing flavors. We help present consultations that provide Biblical principles for church growth and administration. Please pray for us to be able to make a meaningful contribution to help facilitate the growth of the new believers who are part of the home church network, for however long of a season our brothers and sisters choose to make this their primary place of fellowship.
We spent some quality time with a special friend who visited from our home in San Diego. His name is Paisan, and he owns a restaurant that I've frequented since before he took ownership of it. Paisan is Thailand originally, and played a major role of getting us over here and knowing the church in Ao Udom! Since we've known each other, we've spoke of being together in Thailand, and after 11 years, it has happened!
We met a young man from BHC named Juu-ey. He is a special young leader who has a heart for the Lord and who has special giftedness. He's been introducing us to his friends at BHC, and he and friend Volt took us to a great concert of Delirioius's Martin Smith, for free! it was such a great time to be able to worship the Lord in song, in our native language English! We needed that!Tammy discipled a young lady named Oom. She is a new believer and she already shared the Lord with her room mate Ploy, and now Tammy and Oom are teaching her together! Praise the Lord for that!
We have spent several days together with BHC Church, and the young adults there. This is P. Sakchai's church, and we have enjoyed getting to know them much more. Oom is the girlfriend of one of the worship leaders, Volt. We have been sharing the Multiplication Ministries translations of discipleship material with several of their leaders, young and old..
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| Our friends at BHC....Own (Sakchai's son) is leading the worship team on this Sunday! |
We also spent some time with our friend Pastor Choosak's church, and share MM's tools with Choosak, and two of his leaders Vee and Nan...They will be discipling their youth soon.
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| Pastor Choosak and his core group of youth, including Ajan Vee and Nan front right. |
Now, would you please pray for April?????
We return to the northern part of Thailand.
1st week training the leaders at a retreat for Rose's Mercy Ministry Orphanages.
2nd week Good friday and Easter either in Mae Sae
3rd week Leadership training at Immanuel Church and possibly others
4th week Return to Ao Udom for Baptism
Please pray that we can make the very most out of the time up in the north. We have many new friends who we intend to continue to share MM consultation with. We really want the Lord's favor regarding these leadership trainings. We have so much that we want to help the leaders with but we need wide open doors and receptivity from folks who might not yet be familiar with the biblical principles presented by MM's consultation, due to culture or whatever.
Please pray for 2 special BBQ parties being thrown by our friends Ric and Cathy. They have the generosity to try to throw 2 gatherings, 1 for the church in Murrietta, and the 2nd for our old friends at Hydranautics. Financial support came in for the past half year at $1,650, this month. Thank the Lord! I made a deadline of March to see if the Lord would give us a sign that he's going to take care of us, and he provided all our typical expenses plus the extra traveling fees for this month.
Tammy and I want to finish strong and make it into 2013. I'm considering taking a part time job as teacher at a christian school. Please pray for the Lord to guide us on how we will support ourself and His timing on His direction on decisions that have to be made that require obedience and faith and patience.
God bless,
Alex and Tammy
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